By The Restoration HQ desk · · filed under Tech & AI
Capabuild is now "TrueRestore", the rebrand we called
Capabuild, the LiDAR/360 documentation app for restoration and mitigation contractors that TrueBuilt acquired, has rebranded its restoration product to TrueRestore, wiring jobsite capture directly into TrueBuilt's AI estimation engine. The 05-30 digest flagged this acquisition and predicted a possible rebrand; it's now live.
FORNew blood in restoration software means the incumbents finally have to move on AI scoping, so test the challengers and let them earn your data.
AGAINSTA six-month-old rebrand riding an acquisition is a bet, not a backbone, so don't put your whole job pipeline on a tool still figuring out its own name.
Consensus vs. contrarianEveryone's excited about AI estimating speed. The contrarian operator read: the moat isn't the AI, it's whose data format the carriers accept, and until a challenger's output is carrier-defensible, it's a field tool, not your system of record.
Sources TrueRestore (formerly Capabuild), www.capabuild.app/; acquisition context: Commercial Observer, commercialobserver.com/2026/03/truebuilt-cap… (TrueBuilt acquired Capabuild, closed Nov 1 2025)
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